Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-01-29

A moment later sucn a yelllHS as There
was from the two men in the bottom of the
ago. shaft has seldom been heard. First
the men yelled to their friends at the top
of the shaft to hoist "I1ist! hist! hist! the
bucket, for Gods sake!!'
As the smell of the burning sulphur be-
| came ~tronge and as the bucket did not
at once "hist" the two men became wild.
| They got out of the bucket and began call
ing to and begging of the Bullin men to
spare them. The Bullin men made no
answer and believing they had retired to
a safer distance to be out of the way OF the
explosion, the two men rushed tothe bulk
head and yelled louder than ever.
No sooner had they left the bucketthan
up the shaft it went. All hope was now
gone and while one of the men began
praying the other frantically yelled for the
Bullion men to "cut the fuse!' For the
love of God!!" cried he, "cut the fuse"
The Bullion boys now relented and an
nounced to the poor half-crazed fellows
LII ttC Slld1s t1ia tIiCy IldA Soo IAS AobS
and there would be no explosion.
Heartily did the two $780, fellows thank
the Bullion men. Never again did any
of the '420'' folks venture down that shaft
after the pair of H%ibernians had got out
Of it and related their experience; all had
a wholesome dread of the key Of blasting
powder supposed to be planted under the
platform at the bottom.
POWERFUL. "INJUNcTIoN."
The foregoing isa reminder of a very
effective injunction that was served on
some jumping miners near the town OF
Aurora, Esmeralda county, Nevada, in the
early "bloody days" Of that place. The
miners at Aurora in those times did not
have a very exalted opinion of law such as
was dealt out in that region, and never al
lowed its delays to interfere with their
undertakings. An ordinary writ of eject
ment or an injunction seemed to them
much too slow and very inadequate in its
operations; besides. it brought in the law
yers, those middlemen who, like q two
edged sword, cut and bring blood on both
sides.
One day some miners who had run =
long open cut as an approach to a tunnel
they were about to start, having at last
gained proper depth and face, were greatly
astonished on going to work in the morn
ing to find that a stranger party had taken
possession of their claim and were at
work on the face of the cut. The owners
demonstrated with the jumpers, telling
ing them the claim was not jumpable and
that it was "a clean steal"
That might gives right" was the only
answer the Jumpers deigned to make.
The owners then said shey would serve
an injunction on the new conner
"Serve it and be blowedr said the fell
lows-"ffty injunctions will not move us
from this ground"
The owners were obliged to leave for
home. They felt that any injunction they
could obtain in court would be expensive,
a source of trouble, and perhaps inefec-
tual after all. They therefore set to work
and manufactured an injunction" more in
accord with their own advanced ideas in
regard to what the powers of such an in
strument should be. This consisted of a
quicksilver flask filed with powder, re.
volver balls, iron spikes, and all manner OF
missiles. A short piece of fuse was thrust
into the neck of the flask and plugged
fast.
Armed with this terrible torpedo the
men returned to their claim, where the
jumpers were still at WORK. Stealing
quietly to the bank above them, the own
ers looked down into the cut and ther
hailed those below saying: We have com:
with the injunction, and you'd better ge
out OF that cut"
ITO hi with your injunctionE" was the
reply, "what do we care for it?'
"WeW serve it on you, then,' said tht
owners.
"Serve and be d-d!'' said the men be
low.
Lighting the fuse of their torpedo, which
! had thus far been kept out Of sight behint
; the bank, the men brought it into view
and crying: 'Look out, here she comes!
rolled the quicksilver tank down into tn
, midst of the jumpers.
A single glance showed the latter TIL
nature of the injunction that had beel
! served on them, and they were in full re
treat before it had fairly touched tn
Ground